SKFox

I’ve started to outgrow my old reseller account with Magicshosting. I’ve gone through a dozen hosts over the years, some good, some bad, none great (yet). I fell into Media Temple from reading JohnChow.com, which is commented on frequently by JonLee. Still with me? Good!

Anyways, Jon Lee had some glowing things to say about how Media Temple stood up to multiple DIGGs and his overall satisfaction with them. Admittedly, the coupons he posted helped too. These guys (and gals!) aren’t just another group of cpanel/whm resellers. They have taken Plesk and put a bunch of new technology behind their hosting that makes it rock solid. So far I’ve moved 2GB worth of my sites over, with more to come. Thanks to Jon Lee for the tip. I’ve been accepted to participate in the new user forums at MediaTemple and I’m looking forward to a great experience with them. My 100GB of space and 1TB of bandwidth are worth twice the $17 I pay per month for them.

Mr. Gary Lee is covering some startup advice for blogs using Wordpress. SKFox was originally powered by sNews, but I found that it just wasn’t powerful or customizable enough for my tastes and have recently moved it to Wordpress 2.2.2. I have several other sites like AshleyBoardman.com and VikingBattalion.org still running sNews, but is was time for something a little more powerful for SKFox. I’m going to be checking out the list of plugins he provided to see which ones are a fit for SKFox. For now I’m just running the Akismet and Tiger Style Admin panel plugins. Readers: Any other plugins your blog can’t live without?

I have the original VHS of his one man performances from the 90’s. This is the last performance on the tape, and it ROCKS!

jQuery makes plugins super easy. Here are a few WIPs (Works in Progress) that I’m going to keep my eye on, and you should too.

Fancy Menu

Cycle

DynaCloud

Spoilers

I’ve worked in the IT field for some time now. I haven’t had this happen to me, but I can totally relate.

<Macko>helping out another customer with pc problems on the phone again today
<Macko> after he gave me his specs i told him “hold on for a second”
<Macko> three seconds later he’s like, “ok, that turned my computer off”

Source: Bash.org